Ideas Quotes - Page 28

• Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, Mean, Ephemeral

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Oil, Environmental, Plot

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

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• God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Men, Way, Word Of God

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• To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Communication, Things In Life, Strengthening

  Johann Friedrich Herbart, Friedrich Fröbel (1977). “The science of education”

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• The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of

  Thomas Horn

  Technology, Men, Dna

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• It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and
  requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

  Albert Einstein

  Community, Individuality, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.

  Tom Sachs

  Fall, Done, Want

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• I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

  Andy Couturier

  Thinking, People, Want

  Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.244, Stone Bridge Press

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• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2010.

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Writing, Nails

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  People, Obsession, Obsessed

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Mad, Use

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  Jack Charlton

  Change, Play, People

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• I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

  Elliott Gould

  Change, Believe, Thinking

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• There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Men, Eugenics, Work Out

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• Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

  Denis MacShane

  Men, Europe, Vision

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• The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

  James Payn

  Eyebrows, People, Suggestions

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

  Tipper Gore

  Government, Lenses, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

  Pericles

  Dark, Men, Mind

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• Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

  Mark Bernstein

  Growing Up, Stories, Influence

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• It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Imagination, Waiting

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• But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Excited, Wanted

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• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  Ed Miliband

  Equality, Thinking, Government

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Islamic, Israel

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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